Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate

Bellingen
Bellingen
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bellingen within Westerwaldkreis district
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Westerburg
Government
• Mayor	Gerhard Kornab
Area
• Total	4.29 km2 (1.66 sq mi)
Elevation	430 m (1,410 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	632
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56459
Dialling codes	02663
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.bellingen.de

Bellingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Bellingen lies in a hollow northwest of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 8 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.

External links

Bellingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages Template:De icon

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[1] "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.

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